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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

News for the Week of 4.2.13: Icy Roads, Encouraging Things, and SOULWOVEN Coming Out Soon!

Greetings Friends and Readers!

Apologies for the late newsletter. I spent the weekend
dodging semis on icy roads in the mountains and have only just recovered from
the shock (and the Easter meal that followed).

So, to the news:

Work is picking up on Soulwoven: Exile, the sequel to Soulwoven.
I’m about a third of the way through it now, and while I’ve hit a few sticky
points, and I’m also really starting to get into my groove. It still has to go
through a few more rounds of reads and revisions before it will be ready for
mass consumption, but I hope to have it finished soon.

Nadya has been getting a decent response from the agents I’ve
submitted it to. So far it’s still all “no”s, but they’re the “loved this, didn’t
love this,” or “thought it was strong but just didn’t connect with it” kind of “no”s.
As an editor who writes letters like this, I know how close this means I am,
and I take a great deal of comfort in it. I plan to sneak in another round of
revision on it based on some agent feedback after I’ve finished this draft of
Exile and then send it out to a broader swath of agents this summer.

And speaking of summer, I’ve decided to self-publish
Soulwoven in the summer as well! I’m shooting for a June release date, which is
a bit ambitious, but hopefully will be manageable. What that means for you is
that you’ll be able to get a print copy, or a prettied-up digital copy, or a
bundle of both, within the next few months.

Finally, Three Dances has hit the home stretch! I’m waiting
on the final proof copy of the printed version, and as long as I don’t find any
problems in it, it’ll go live either this week or next.

The fourth story in the collection, Birdcage, is up on
Wattpad now. It’s about an ordinary human being who encounters something he can’t
explain, and a supernatural being caught in a cycle of death, rebirth, and
predation she doesn’t particularly enjoy.

It is also, despite what one early reader said to me,
decidedly NOT erotica.

Happy spring, friends! It snowed AND rained here today, so
surely the world is yawning and stretching and waking up for another round of
rabid growth.